Hungarian Timeline

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• 1802: Lajos Kossuth was born in Monok, Hungary.

LAJOS KOSSUTH

• 1830: Lajos Kossuth was imprisoned for his activities. For his release, he rallied the Magyar gentry and lesser nobility to the nationalist cause and sought political independence for Hungary.

• 1840: Lajos Kossuth becomes most important leader of the reform movement and turns it into Hungarian independence

movements.

1848: French Revolution incites other European countries; Hungary instates a government

accountable to parliament. But again many East Europeans were against these revolutions.

Sep 28 1848: Lajos Kossuth, finance minister, assumed control of the in Hungary.

Lajos Kossuth led a failed revolt for Hungarian independence.

• • (1848-49) A revolution broke out in Pest, which extended over the entire country. The Habsburg Emperor was dethroned after the Hungarian army won several significant battles. Lajos Kossuth was elected Governor. The longest European national revolution could only be oppressed in the summer of 1849 by the Habsburgs with the help of the Russian army.

• 1849 Jun 17: Russian troops invaded Hungary

• May 1848: Hungary began to gain self-government, Austrians began to demand a representative government. Metternich resigned and suffrage was granted.

• 1867: Francis Deak force emperor Francis to give Hungary equal status with Austria so there were two monarchies established. But each country have it’s own separate constitutional government.

1878: Bosnia came under the rule of the austrian-hungarian empire. A representative from vienna, govern the area

• March 1894: Lajos Kossuth died in the age of 91 years old.